Matt Vance: Facts of Life by Gary Soto, "Because I wanted to know what adults are thinking about teenagers"
Ismael DelaRosa: Shelf Life edited by Gary Paulsen, "Because it's a mixture of great authors in one book and I am able to see the different techniques they use"
What we know: Master techniques
plot structure- Exposition: Main character, setting
Narrative hook: the part that grabs the reader
Rising action
Climax: Turning point
Falling action
Resolution: Denouement
Variations: Flashback
In medias res: in the middle of things
No resolution: no closure, no ending, open ended
POV: First person: Main character is telling is the story
Third person: Outside narrator
Point of view controls the other techniques
Cool Vivid words
Conflict: Man V. Man
Man V. Nature
Man V. Self
Man V. Society
Theme: The authors main idea
Characterization: Describes the characters
What we want to know:
How does the author write the beginning to his genre short stories:
Shelf Life-Forwards and an introduction to the story.
Facts of Life- It starts like In medias res because it started in the middle of a baseball game.
What master techniques have we seen
Shelf Life- , First person, plot structure
Facts of Life- In medias res, plot structure, first person, conflict (Man V. Man)
Ismael DelaRosa: Shelf Life edited by Gary Paulsen, "Because it's a mixture of great authors in one book and I am able to see the different techniques they use"
What we know: Master techniques
plot structure- Exposition: Main character, setting
Narrative hook: the part that grabs the reader
Rising action
Climax: Turning point
Falling action
Resolution: Denouement
Variations: Flashback
In medias res: in the middle of things
No resolution: no closure, no ending, open ended
POV: First person: Main character is telling is the story
Third person: Outside narrator
Point of view controls the other techniques
Cool Vivid words
Conflict: Man V. Man
Man V. Nature
Man V. Self
Man V. Society
Theme: The authors main idea
Characterization: Describes the characters
What we want to know:
How does the author write the beginning to his genre short stories:
Shelf Life-Forwards and an introduction to the story.
Facts of Life- It starts like In medias res because it started in the middle of a baseball game.
What master techniques have we seen
Shelf Life- , First person, plot structure
Facts of Life- In medias res, plot structure, first person, conflict (Man V. Man)